Mrs. Slater's Kindergarten Class: Long Weekend 🌞

Ask Your Child About...

1. Story mapping- characters, setting, main idea, beginning, middle, and end

2. First Grade math!

3. Parts of a plant/ different types of plants

4. How their plant has grown this week

5. Outdoor day!

We are writers! We are published! Enjoy these PAWsome books at home!

🦁 Outdoor day success! The rain left in just enough time for our outdoor day activities. YAY! We played "On your knees please!" for the 30(something)th year! Followed by chalk, playground, and popsicles!

📚 We have been reviewing each of the main areas of a book this week. We expanded and connected the areas to see how and why an author creates their story the way they do. We reviewed each of the areas on their own and then expanded and connected them through the concept of story mapping. The students did a wonderful job of dissecting the stories to figure out what was truly going on. This helps us better comprehend the story we are reading, understand how we can use these skills on other stories we will read in the future, and help us create top-notch stories of our own.

🖊 Story mapping also helped us with our writing this week. We looked at how we can use a story map to generate our ideas before we write them down in a story. We realized this helps solidify our ideas and problem solve what we needed to add or fix before actually writing it down. Encourage your child to create a story map before writing to help clarify their ideas for their reader!

🔢 First Grade math?? Oh yes we can! This week we started looking at what math will look like next year in first grade! This involves story problems, creating equations, and finding the missing values. Although we were nervous about first grade math our first day, we now realize we CAN do it! Many of these concepts are things we have already worked on and are now simply expanding them. We will continue to look into first grade math next week and boost our confidence and understanding so they can walk into school next year and say "I've got this!"

🌱 We have continued to watch our plans grow and are amazed at how quickly things can change. We love having something to take care of and love to check in on them throughout the day. We continued our plant study by exploring beyond the seed and on to the rest of the plant parts. We discussed the purpose of each part of a plant and where we can find these parts. We also went on a plant hunt around the school yard and were very surprised at how many different varieties we were able to find! With our science journals coming home this week, I encourage you to take your child on various science explorations over the summer!